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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Sestina
Fiction
Mood
Irony
2. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Aside
Hyperbole
Iamb
Imagery
3. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Allegory
Falling Action
Dialect
Villanelle
4. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Meter
Act
Image
Aside
5. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Simile
Subject
Stanza
Aubade
6. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Cliche
Parody
Elegy
Dactyl
7. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Antagonist
Caesura
Octave
Epic
8. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Literal Language
Caesura
Motif
3rd Person (Omniscient)
9. A character struggles against some outside force.
1st Person
Foil
External Conflict
Recognition
10. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Dactyl
Ballad
Catharsis
Personification
11. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Foil
Plot
12. The person who 'tells' the story.
Narrator
Sonnet
Blank Verse
Epiphany
13. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Sestina
Ode
Plot
Complication
14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Denouement
Understatement
Onomatopoeia
Verbal Irony
15. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Protagonist
Hyperbole
Closed Form
16. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Parody
Dactyl
Mood
Sonnet
17. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Free Verse
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Mood
Catharsis
18. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Theme
Sonnet
Dramatic Irony
Diction
19. A poem that tells a story.
Metaphor
Narrative Poem
Imagery
Reversal
20. The organizational form of a literary work.
Rising Action
Suspense
Structure
Denotation
21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Symbolism
Rising Action
Audience
Caesura
22. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Situational Irony
Fiction
Lyric Poem
Narrator
23. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Recognition
Narrator
Free Verse
Understatement
24. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
Trochee
Denouement
Assonance
Aphorism
25. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Simile
External Conflict
Falling Action
Spondee
26. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Conflict
Sonnet
Subject
Spondee
27. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Internal Conflict
Setting
Figurative Language
Nonfiction
28. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Structure
Reversal
Climax
Foreshadowing
29. The time and place of a story or play.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Synecdoche
Lyric Poem
Setting
30. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Verbal Irony
Voice
Foil
Theme
31. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Tercet
Fiction
Allusion
Sestina
32. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Plot
External Conflict
Act
33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Parable
Rhyme
Flashback
Literal Language
34. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Imagery
Convention
Cliche
Apostrophe
35. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Repetition
Analogy
Nonfiction
Convention
36. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Fiction
Myth
Trochee
37. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Folklore
Persona
Sestina
Assonance
38. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Setting
Apostrophe
Elegy
Understatement
39. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Sonnet
Falling Action
Ode
Pyrrhic
40. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Catharsis
Persona
Conflict
Stereotype
41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Ballad
Parallelism
Onomatopoeia
Internal Conflict
42. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Dialect
Tone
Nonfiction
Analogy
43. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Situational Irony
Parable
Satire
Metonymy
44. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Plot
Act
Ballad
45. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Meter
Ode
Climax
Paradox
46. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Complication
Audience
Stereotype
Synecdoche
47. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Literal Language
Allegory
Dialect
Stanza
48. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Spondee
Aside
Subject
Allegory
49. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Dialogue
Denouement
Persona
Cliche
50. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Caesura
Ballad
Apostrophe
Verbal Irony